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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The Wednesday Web Browser: A Book Tour Begins, More on Blogging in Character, and Free Writing Class in Boston

Stephanie Elizondo Griest, whom you may remember from this interview, is beginning a book tour to promote her latest, a memoir titled Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines. See if you can catch an appearance by checking the tour schedule, and enjoy an excerpt ahead of time here.==========Recall our lively discussion about blogging in character? Here's another take on the subject (via The Book Publicity Blog).==========And here's something especially for our friends in Boston: Grub Street will be hosting a free session with Susan Tiberghien, focusing on how to get "From Journal Entry to Personal Essay." The event will take place Saturday afternoon, August 16, 2008. Read the session description and Tiberghien's bio here.

About Me

Erika Dreifus lives and writes in New York City. Her story collection, Quiet Americans, will be published in January 2011 by Last Light Studio Books. Erika is a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and an advisory board member forJ Journal: New Writing on Justice, and she wrote the section on "Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing" for the second edition of Tom Kealey's Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Erika's writing practice encompasses fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. For more about Erika's writing, please visit her website.

Erika is also the editor/publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter featuring advice, opportunities, and resources on the craft and business of writing for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.